The Russellville Democrat., 1887-03-23
Don't Take a Back Seat.

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Make up your mind that you will
have front seat in life and you will.
attract to you the powers that carry
you to the front seat. If Tin mind J
you take the back seat, you get only
| the back seat The confident, de
termined mood of mind, steadily
kept up, brings to you other conf.
dent people, cash and credit.
| Don't be screw. What keeps
thousands of noses on the grindstone
of hard times is that they have no
confidence or courage In themselves
to take risks or responsibilities.
They keep poor house in their
minds and live in it. They aspire
TO be only screw in the business
machine, instead of striking out and
making a machine of their own.
The screws are book keepers, tele
graph operators, clerks, and all who
never hope or plan for anything be-
yond situation and steady wages.
Confidence and brains com bined find
such screws ready made by the
thousand. 1t makes the screw do as
much work for as little money as
possible, when one screw is worn
out it throws it aside and gets an
other.
The screws find fault with the
monopolsts. Their real slavery is
in their own minds. They never
think, aspire, plan or demand In
thought to be anything but screws.
They think there is no place for
them at the head of business.
Their first and great step toward
staying permanently at the tail OF
business lies IN thinking that they
must remain at the tail
Real business does not lie alone
in being industrious. The goody-
goody books and maxims have only
told half the story about industry.
A great deal depends upon what you
are industrious about. If you spend
all your time in polishing pans or
backing boots your industry wont
carry YOU very high. The industri-
Gus mind in rested body plans in
an hour what brings IN more money
than a tin pan pohsher may earn in
a year. People who work only or
mostly with their bodies have as
good a right as the capitalist to work
with their minds. The world always
wants new things, more curious
things, more improved things, more
amusing things. No workman in
any trade, any art, any profession,
should be content with doing what
some one else has done before him,
even though he does it well. He
should aim at doing something bet
ter than any one has done before
him. When he can do this he must
next pash it on the worlds notice.
Push is a talent as much as skill
in any art. You can commence
pushing by imagining yourself a
pusher. Keep yourself before your
self in your mind as pusher, and
such a frame of mind will at length
make you push. There is power
in continual imagination of your
sell III ull NGl vain NbNi1ANti "HiN'
does make you more and more like
such character. Imagine that the
best belongs to you and you will lind
the best coming to you Imagine
the worst, see yourself in the poor
house-and the poor-house comes 10
YOU, Success, like charity, must
commence at home In the mind.
If you are compelled to live in
poor room and on poor fare, do 50
under protest, keep your mind on the
better room and the better fare,
Don't say, II s'pose | must always
take up with this" So say instead,
II am going to have better things
than these" You are then creating
for Yourself strength not weakness
You are then ever strengthening
this inexplicable mental attraction
which will bring these things to you
ROLLER MILLER.